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One of my favorite activities each week in Second Life is the Monday “Writers Symposium” I host at Story Mountain Center for Writers.
The symposium is rather a fancy name for what we do, but it’s a convenient term for this weekly meeting where writers gather, read their work to the others attending, and then, if [...]

Imagine this scenario: You’re an unpublished, cialis unknown playwright and you’ve just written a play that you believe needs to be staged. Your income is commensurate with most writers’ – i.e., sale not a lot. And you don’t have rich friends or family who might fork over the tens of thousands [...]

I’m trying very hard to develop at least a minimal amount of affection for the sound of my voice. It’s tough, when I’ve hated hearing it for nearly half a century! After all, I’m a writer! You know — one of those people who can think as they type, but not as they talk. But […]

Second Life collapses time. Case in point: my almost-lifelong effort to find or start a writers’ group for sharing and feedback. For creative writers, the value of sharing their writing with other writers and getting feedback, support, and helpful critique is immeasurable. Some writers even say it’s essential for getting published. Whether that’s true or […]

For the first time in my life, I’m proud to call myself an evangelist. Wait! Before you click that X-to-close button (especially those of you who know me personally), I’m NOT talking about religion in any shape or form! No, what I’ve become downright evangelical about is Second Life . And especially this virtual world […]

I’ve been fighting that Big, Bad Time Monster lately — trying to juggle my income-producing work … with revising my novel … with attending an increasing number of great writers’ events in Second Life … with blog-writing … with everything else in life … blah, blah, blah. And as they say in that great movie, […]

“Why aren’t more writers flocking to Second Life?” I asked my partner one day. “Because SL is pretty overwhelming at first,” my partner answered. I laughed. “You should know! Remember how you wore two sets of hair for the longest time? Kept wandering off and getting lost?” (see photo below for example) No verbal response […]

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Joan Kremer is a professional business/ nonfiction writer, novelist, short story writer, editor of an online literary journal, and most recently co-owner of the Story Mountain Center for Writers in Second Life® (where I go by the avatar name Alas Zerbino, whose picture appears above).

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